Posted on 08/15/2014 4:07:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Is Senator Kay Hagan getting nervous? The incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator from North Carolina is the proud beneficiary of a $9 million dollars worth of media buys from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). Hagan is vulnerable this cycle, with polls showing her in a dead heat with her Republican opponent, Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives Thom Tillis. Media buys are common in elections, but this is the biggest one in this race so far, which has some people wondering if Hagan is hitting the “panic button” (via Charlotte Observer) [emphasis mine]:
The ad buy, the largest so far in North Carolina, would be paid out through the end of the campaign. It reflects both the outside interest in a race that will help decide control of the Senate and, some say, concern about Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan.
“It tells me a couple things,” said Jennifer Duffy, an analyst with the Washington-based Cook Political Report. “One, that she really is in trouble. They’re not going to spend that kind of money defending an incumbent who’s in reasonably good shape.
“Two, they’re going to do the negative ads because I don’t think her approval ratings can take any more hits.”
Brad Dayspring, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said the buy signals that Democrats have hit the “panic button.”
“The DSCC very clearly believes that if Kay Hagan loses North Carolina, their majority is gone,” he said in a release.
Along with this media buy, Hagan is hoping to link discontent with North Carolina's GOP leadership to Tillis, while Tillis is trying to make Hagan synonymous with Obama and his failed policies. Republicans look like they have the Senate races in Montana, West Virginia, and South Dakota locked, but they need three more to retake the Senate. And North Carolina, Louisiana and Arkansas all have vulnerable red state Democratic Senators–with each race being a bellwether for survival for the other two. Grab some popcorn.
She rode in on Obama’s coattails and is lockstep with him on every vote cast in the senate.
McConnell and Cochran may go down. I’m not sure if that is factored in here in this analysis.
“... all have vulnerable red state Democratic Senators–with each race being a bellwether( bedwetter) for survival for the other two. Grab some popcorn.”
Fixed it.
Get this twit out of Jesse Helms’s seat.
Dayspring is a pompous ass if you are following #mssen
OMG...you can’t turn on the local NC telly without a picture of Hagan popping up.
My daughter leaves the room while I rant...
Change the channel, I can’t blame your daughter
You must be thinking that a McConnell Senate will be any different than a Reid Senate.
You’re welcome fool.
The article is about Kagan, not Dayspring whoever he is. Please stay on subject
Mirror meet fool hostage
Come down to Mississippi this November and beg me to vote for Cochran to give McConnell the Gold Ring. Actions have consequences.
No, I am not comfortable with it. But I am no fool as you show to be. You think there are two parties inside the Beltway; there’s only one word to describe such imbecility; fool.
And nothing will change until fools wisen up.
The uniparty offers fools like you a menu of chicken sh*t or bullsh*t and fools like you will choose and eat thinking one is better than the other.
As for me, no thank you.
Just curious, would you re-consider if McDaniel plays the good soldier and endorses Cochran in the general election and asks his supporters to do the same? If I were in Mississippi, I don’t know if I would vote for Cochran or not. If I did, it would be with the utmost reluctance and only to keep the seat in Republican hands. To get my vote, Cochran would have to keep his nose clean between now and the election and sincerely try to mend the fences with the conservatives in Mississippi.
Yes, there’s nervousness, and unnerved thinking all throughout her campaign. They are paaaaaaaanicked, but keep working my fellow N.C. freepers, we cannot take anything for granted, and MUST ‘beat the snot out of her’ and the rest of the ‘progressive Democrats’!~ Don’t let up TILL WE WIN!!
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